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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






2. The time and place of a story or play.






3. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






4. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






5. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






6. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






7. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






8. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






9. The person who 'tells' the story.






10. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






11. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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12. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






13. A short saying with a moral.






14. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






15. A four line stanza in a poem.






16. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






17. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






18. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






19. What a story or play is about.






20. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






22. The main character of a literary work.






23. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






24. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






25. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






26. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






27. A character struggles against some outside force.






28. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






29. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






30. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






31. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






32. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






34. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






35. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






36. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






37. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






38. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






39. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






40. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






41. A strong pause within a line.






42. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






43. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






44. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






45. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






46. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






47. A poem that tells a story.






48. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






49. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






50. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.